THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 11 DECEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996715
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 11, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
11 DECEMBER 1963
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1. Bolivia
a. There was no progress yes-
terday toward the release of the
hostages.
b. Government forces have all
but sealed off the Catavi-Siglo area
and are prepared to move against the
miners when ordered to do so.
c. The troops may be reinforced
by armed militia of the peasant or-
ganization which yesterday said it
stood strongly behind President Paz.
d. Paz has delayed a decision
to commit these forces and is trying
a variety of intermediate measures.
He has authorized the dispatch of a
group from the national tin miners'
union to Catavi-Siglo to negotiate
the release of the four Americans.
We think its chances are slim.
e. He has taken steps to
freeze Lechin's funds and may try to
cut off outside food supplies to
the recalcitrant miners today.
f. Paz is not sanguine that
these measures will work. Lechin
yesterday reiterated that the hos-
tages would not be released unless
the government turns loose the three
leaders of the tin miners' union it
holds.
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2. USSR-Cuba
3. Honduras
g. Last night Paz told Ambas-
sador Henderson that in the end he
will probably have to use force or
risk abandoning Bolivia to extremist
control.
a. The tempo of Soviet arms
shipments to Cuba has quickened a
bit in recent months.
a. A new crisis is brewing in
Tegucigalpa.
b. :The agreement between the
military junta and Liberal Party
moderates on measures to restore
constitutional rule is faltering in
the absence of US recognition.
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4. Thailand
c. Moderate party leaders are
having trouble keeping their follow-
ers in line. Opposition on the ex-
treme left is taking a more violent
turn.
d. A group of armed men yes-
terday seized the government radio
for an hour and a half and broadcast
threats of death to supporters of
the military rulers.
e. This sort of thing could
easily persuade the junta to rely
on strict military rule.
a. Although the post-Sarit
transition has gone along smoothly
thus far, the Thai government is
not yet out of the woods.
b. Prime Minister Thanom
Kittikachorn has a week to formulate
his cabinet, and considerable infight-
ing is expected.
c. As matters now stand, it
is not clear whether Thanom will
merely provide stop-gap leadership
or whether a new leader will emerge
from a power fight now going on
among military leaders.
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5. South Vietnam
d. Generals Chitti (now army
chief of staff), Krit, (commander
of troops in the Bangkok area), and
Praphat (minister of interior) are
currently maneuvering for power.
If none emerges dominant, they may?
end up sharing it under Thanom.
a. Reports from Saigon say that
Viet Cong guerrilla activities last
month resulted in the elimination
of many strategic hamlets in Long
An Province, just southwest of Sai-
gon, and in the extension of the area
physically controlled by the Commu-
nists.
? b. The province, along with
two neighboring ones, bore the brunt
of the intensified Communist effort
following Diem's ouster.
c. Not only were the Commu-
nists relatively strong in this area,
but the strategic hamlet program
had been overextended to the point
where all hamlets could not be pro-
tected by available forces.
d.
there has been a
sharp deterioration in recent months
of the security situation in Long An
and other provinces near Saigon.
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NOTES
. Laos We are suspicious of the ease with which
Fight-wing Laotians have been advancing into Pathet
Lao positions. Their latest success, the occupation
of Lak Sao, a strategic post only 21 miles from the
North Vietnamese border, came against only token re-
sistance. A sharp Communist reaction could come at
any time.
B. British Guiana Prime Minister Williams of Trinidad
has offered to help unseat Jagan. Williams says he
is willing to send organizers from his own party, in
power since 1956, to work at improving the organiza-
tion of the fragmented opposition to Jagan.
C. UAR-Algeria Nasir has dispatched more shi.r
ments of arms and equipment to the Algerians.
D. Indonesia President Sukarno has had to postpone his
projected visit to Manila on 16 December to discuss
Malaysia with Philippine leaders.. A meeting is still
in the works but it is not clear when or where. It
could come during Sukarno's annual tour abroad which
we hear will begin in February.
E. Communist China Peiping has signed contracts for
the delivery of half-a-million tons of Canadian
wheat in the first half of next year. Purchases for
the pre-harvest period now stand at 2.2 million'tons,
about three quarters of the Chinese average for this
period in the past three years.
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